The quotes thread

[rojo]

Good grief, we're quoting Married With Children now? :lol:

Here's one-

It's not easy being green.
-Kermit the Frog.

Ok, he sang it, but still...

 

[Muza]

haha, the last two killed me!!! love it, love it, love it!

 

[marval]

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe."
Jimmy Durante

 

[intet_at_tabe]

"I shot a man in Reno, Just to watch him die", by Johnny Cash.

 

[marval]

True friends stab you in the front.
Author: Oscar Wilde

 

[intet_at_tabe]

"I know not what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones", by Albert Einstein.

 

[marval]

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
E E Cummings (1894-1962)

 

[Muza]

A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle

 

[JLS]

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest"

-Tom Stoppard

 

[marval]

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

 

[Muza]

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle

 

[marval]

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 

[Contratrombone64]

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
---Anton Chekov

 

[marval]

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

 

[Contratrombone64]

Asked whether his first romantic encounter was homosexual or heterosexual, Gore Vidal replied that he had been "too polite to ask".

Now THAT's a typical Vidal response if ever the was one. Rather like Arthur C. Clarke, when asked if he was gay, answering "90% of the time I'm moderately cheerful ..."

 

[Contratrombone64]

Another beautify from Gore Vidal:

The last time Vidal saw her [his mother] was in 1957, when he invited her to London. "I think she came to try and restore relations," Vidal wrote. "That didn't work. She took to the bottle. Then she started attacking Howard. I said: 'I think you had better go.' Later she wrote me a poison-pen letter and I wrote her and said: 'I shall never, ever, see you again as long as you live"

 

[intet_at_tabe]

"Blushing is the color of virtue.", by the Greek philosopher Diogenes.

 

[marval]

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Another Vidal

"but you're convinced that, to put it crudely, when you die, that's it." "No," Vidal replies. "I wouldn't say: 'When you die, that's it.' I'd say: 'When you're born, that's it.'"

 

[Contratrombone64]

I am not like the Leader of the Opposition. I did not slither out of the Cabinet room like a mangy maggot ...
---Australian prime minister Paul Keating on former Liberal and Opposition Leader (and later Prime Minister) John Howard